A female call center agent is robbed and knifed to death by a “friend,” whom she had just met through Facebook. This follows another Facebook crime that happened just this week. The incident involved ABS-CBN director Ricky Rivero who luckily escaped death when he was stabbed several times by a male friend whom he had supposedly recently met though… Read more »

Here are my favorite quotes from Stephen Pressfield’s book, “Do The Work.” 1. In other words, fear doesn’t go away. The warrior and the artist live by the same code of necessity, which dictates that the battle must be fought anew every day. 2. A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius… Read more »

Off I go to the movies, and I choose “Rio.” Linda, the owner of a small bookshop in a small town in Minnesota, gets an unexpected visit from an ornithologist (a scientist who studies birds, or a bird freak, for short) named Tulio who is from Rio de Janeiro. Tulio convinces Linda to fly to Rio so that… Read more »

When people ask me, “Where do you work?” I often tell them, “I usually work at home.” Then I also say, “But sometimes I work in a coffee shop.” “Or at a restaurant in a mall.” Yes, I can work anywhere I want. Anytime I want. And that’s what I like best about doing Virtual Assistant (VA) work. I choose… Read more »

Twitter is one of my main distractions when doing online work. I first tried the service last year, and I lasted for about two weeks. “Grocery shopping at SM” “Coffee at Starbucks before going home” I would imagine someone responding with, “SOOO???!!!” or “Who cares?!!!” Actually, a more realistic fear is not having anyone respond at all at anything I’ve… Read more »